29C22.     Exodus 17:8-13.   “As long as Moses kept his hands raised up, Israel had the better of the fight.”  As long as we continue in prayer dependent upon the Lord, the end result will always be success, as God measures success.  “Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other.”  We join together and, as the People of God, we pray putting our faith in the Lord our God.

Luke 18:9-14.  “Two people went to the temple to pray.”  The Pharisee “spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity.’”  He goes on so to say that he himself has made himself good.  In other words, he is his own God who has made himself good without God.  He prides himself on what he has accomplished without God.  The tax collector, on the other hand, throws himself on the mercy of God, acknowledging that he has not been able to make himself good.  The Pharisee is not justified in the eyes of God but the tax collector is.  If we try to be our own savior without God, we are lost.  If we allow God to be truly the God of our lives, we are saved by the God in whom we live.

2 Timothy 3:14-4:2.   Be immersed in the sacred Scriptures “so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work.”  The sacred Scriptures “are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.”  Through the Bible the invisible God makes himself very much present to us so that we come to appreciate God, as a living person, vibrant and active in our lives.